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I’ve been home almost six months now. Before arriving back in Canada I spent months thinking about how to try and summarize this gigantic event. How can you sum up 648 days of the most different experience to anyone you know? How can you even connect with anyone when arriving home? Somehow, crawling the walls [...]

So back in Uruguay over Christmas our motorbiking friends Brian and Marie made us clean out our car. It took an entire day, and it was the first time we’d done it on the trip. We ended up shipping a whole bunch of junk home, and things were looking good. Somehow in the past few [...]

Bogota is pretty rad, but it requires a lot of partying. Kind of like Montreal. Josh and I have been stuck here 3 days longer than intended, pretty much just sleeping and drinking. It is also the most annoying city to drive around. Oh yeah, the transvestites. Bogota has more prostitutes and transvestites than I’ve [...]

So Josh and I are in Colombia. So far, I love love love this country. The people are terrifyingly friendly, the beer is good (much better than in Venezuela, home to the WORST BEERS EVER) and the landscape is beautiful. Unfortunately most of those wonderful qualities are a result of the terrible things going on [...]

Venezuela sucks. And is awesome at the same time. Do you wanna hear a very tragic (and complicated) FML story? Ok so, I arrived in Venezuela about a week ago. I had heard thatthere are two exchange rates for money here; the black market rate (5-6 bolivars to the dollar) and the “official rate” (2.25 [...]

Everyone non-Venezuelan, anyways. To withdraw money from an ATM here you have to enter the digits of your Venezuelan ID number. Obviously, I don’t have one of those. Apparently you can go inside the bank, and the teller can withdraw the cash for you. Oh, one problem. It’s Saturday, and it’s easter weekend. All the [...]

We arrived in Guyana, today and headed straight for Georgetown. Guyana is a weird looking country. Oh, and everyone speaks English. First of all, just about all of the buildings are on stilts, and most of them are sporting some pretty trippy designs/colours. All these houses look more or less the same, and they all [...]

Ok – so I’ve started another blog. Not like I don’t already have ten billion on the go, but this one’s gonna be a keeper! I swear! It took me a long time to get the wordpress stuff working, and thanks to some handy internet resources and the help of Josh, everything is in order. [...]